Lead of a small team of scripters here. The “Why. Not What” is defo a good way of encouraging cleaner code.

Had to request changes recently on a PR like this, big function with comments telling me what it was doing. When they resubmitted for review they had broken it down into smaller functions with good variable/function naming. following what was going on was much easier

you’d be surprised what slips through review

if its aliased you should be able to just run “fire” and it does the rest

i read a reddit post years ago where a someone wrote a script that iterates through all the projects in their dev folder, for each project creating a new branch, committing and pushing.

they then aliased it to “fire” or “panic” or something like that.

not a bad idea really

I can code a feature faster than i can debug ChatGPTs attempt. so long as it’s in JS

ChatGPT is better at bash than me though

i actually thought i would go take a look at threads. when i tried to log in on my PC it told me i had to download the app on my phone before it would let me log in with the account they already apparently created for me.

so i left and havent been back

i’ll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don’t interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing

$5 a month is still a lot imo. i’d do $12 a year ($1 a month billed annually or 6 monthly) which is still an order of magnitude larger than the amount they would get from advertising for me

Intermittently working for me, cannot log in though

£5.99 a month…

i cant believe people actually pay that for what is essentially a forum.

it’d probably be decades before they made that off me in advertising.

They could have had my money too if what they were asking were reasonable and i retained the ability to use RIF

actually not a bad idea. i live in a flat so my car is parked in a car park like 200m away from my property. if my entire town goes up in smoke then i imagine that losing data would be the least of my problems

Yeah it is pretty rough although the files don’t necessarily change all that much so if i can set up a backup somewhere and prepopulate it with my data as it stands now then incrementally keep it update it with nightly jobs then i’m hoping it’ll mostly be done by the morning.

My backup backup plan would be to buy a couple high capacity solid state disks and either take them myself or mail them to my parents once a week. The mailman has pretty high bandwidth, even if the latency is rather rough

Tbh my current plan was to just put the data on a hard drive and post it to my parents once a week/month.

Saving on an SD card definitely seems kind of sketch tho. they are notoriously unreliable

Definitely an option if I’m a bit more selective with what i back up. At the moment for the client backups i’m zipping and encrypting the entire home folder for each client once a week. I could probably write something that looks for file changes and uploads just those

It will naturally taper off after the end of the month exodus happens and people settle down into their new communities. Lemmy doesn’t have the underlying culture associated with it that reddit has developed over the last decade or so. That is something that will develop over time. until then we’re all ex redditors more than we are lemmites (lemmings? lemmiers?).

I don’t think it’s possible that they could have handled this worse

You would need one hell of a botnet to DDOS a site as large as reddit while half its normal users are essentially striking